1 Apr 2009 Directors: Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi France, USA 2007 97 min Marji is an outspoken 8 year old girl at the time of the Iranian revolution. As she grows up she finds her unique perspective on life repeatedly challenged by the country’s fundamentalist rulers. Worried for her safety, her parents send her… Continue reading Persepolis
Tag: USA
The Crucible
1 Oct 1997 Director: Nicholas Hytner US 1996 123 min The first American film rendition of Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible” based on the Salem witch trials. Set in the Year 1692 a group of New England girls are caught performing a sinful dance in the woods. They claim they were possessed by the Devil… Continue reading The Crucible
Fargo
15 Oct 1997 Director: Ethan & Joel Coen USA 1996 97 min A crime/thriller by the Coen Brothers (Ethan and Joel) laced with satire, comedy and suspense. Based on a true story. William H. Macy is desperate for money for a business deal and hires two hoodlums to kidnap his wife and to split the… Continue reading Fargo
Citizen Kane
1 Nov 1995 Director: Orson Welles USA 1941 119 min Regarded by some as the greatest film ever made, Orson Welles stars, co-wrote, produced and directed his first film. A thinly disguised biography/satire on William Randolph Hearst; Charles Foster Kane is a wealthy man who wields power and collects works of art, but never finds… Continue reading Citizen Kane
High Heels
15 Nov 1995 Director: Pedro Almodovar USA 1991 114 min Awaiting the arrival of her actress mother in Madrid airport, a young woman reminisces about events from her childhood and her stepfather’s death – for which she was responsible. Now married, she is unaware that her husband is her mother’s former lover. It transpires that… Continue reading High Heels
Natural Born Killers
29 Nov 1995 Director: Oliver Stone USA 1994 119 min Oliver Stone’s highly controversial adaptation of a Quentin Tarantino script fell foul of the British film censor, but after some delay has been released uncut. It is a compelling satire on the disturbing way the media create and glamorise the most unlikely of heroes. The… Continue reading Natural Born Killers
Madness Of King George
10 Jan 1996 Director: Nicholas Hytner UK, USA 1994 110 min Re-titled from the play The Madness of George III (so Americans would not ask to see I and II), this film is an ebullient tragic-comedy adapted by Alan Bennett from his own stage play. It is a ribald romp through the royal courtyards of… Continue reading Madness Of King George
The Wedding Banquet
6 Mar 1996 Director: Ang Lee USA, Taiwan 1993 108 min Wai-Tung lives in New York with his long-term white lover Simon, but his parents, still in Taiwan yearn for grandchildren. He arranges a marriage of convenience with Green card seeking Wei-When and his parents announce they are coming for the wedding. Cultural chaos ensues.… Continue reading The Wedding Banquet
Bullets Over Broadway
20 Mar 1996 Director: Woody Allen USA 1994 99 min David Shayne, played by John Cusack, is a playwright in 1920’s New York desperate to get his work shown. He is helped by Mafioso Nick Valenti who will finance the play if his girlfriend Olive with a glass shattering voice, gets a starring role. Valenti… Continue reading Bullets Over Broadway
Flirting With Disaster
10 Dec 1997 Director: David O. Russell USA 1996 92 min Mel Coplin decides to go off in search of his natural parents triggered by the arrival of his first born child. He enlists the aid of Tina from the adoption agency, who wishes to come along for research purposes. The trio of Ben, his… Continue reading Flirting With Disaster